You are the editor on the desk, every incoming post must be published, fact-checked, or killed before the next one lands.
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How to play
Posts stream across your editor's desk, each carrying engagement potential and a set of red or green flags. Publish solid reporting to grow reach, kill junk to protect trust, and spend your limited fact-checks on the close calls. Let trust collapse and the shift ends.
Publish a post to gain reach, but publishing junk craters trust
Kill a post you judge to be fabricated or misleading
Fact-check to reveal a post's truthfulness, but checks are limited
Balance reach against trust across the whole shift
Game modes
Daily: a fixed shift shared by everyone each day
Practice: randomized shifts at Easy, Medium or Hard difficulty
Controls
Desktop: click Publish, Fact-check or Kill
Phone & tablet: tap the Publish, Fact-check or Kill buttons (mouse or touch only, no keyboard needed)
Tips & strategy
Save your scarce fact-checks for ambiguous posts, obvious red flags can be killed without spending one
A calm, well-formatted post can still be fabricated, so don't publish purely on appearances
What you'll learn
Feed Warden is about the editorial judgement behind a trustworthy news feed.
Skills: media literacy, news judgment, source credibility
Best for: roughly grades 7–12 (ages 12+)
For parents & teachers: the judgment behind trustworthy news.
About Feed Warden
Feed Warden is an original free browser game about the editorial judgement behind a trustworthy news feed, weighing the pull of engagement against the cost of spreading misinformation.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
